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Deaths in April 2012

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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2012.

Contents

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

  • Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

    • 1

  • Ekrem Bora, 78, Turkish actor, pulmonary edema.
  • Lionel Bowen, 89, Australian politician, MP for Kingsford-Smith (1969–1990); Deputy Prime Minister (1983–1990), pneumonia.
  • Sauro Bufalini, 70, Italian Olympic basketball player. (Italian)
  • Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, Italian footballer (Lazio, New York Cosmos), heart attack.
  • Miguel de la Madrid, 77, Mexican politician, President (1982–1988), complications of pulmonary emphysema.
  • Leila Denmark, 114, American supercentenarian, author, and physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine.
  • Jamaa Fanaka, 68, American filmmaker.
  • N. K. P. Salve, 91, Indian politician.
  • Sir Stan Yapp, 70, English politician.

    • 2

  • Jesús Aguilarte, 53, Venezuelan politician, Governor of Apure State (1999–2000; 2004–2011), shot.
  • Warren Bonython, 95, Australian conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer.
  • Roger Breske, 73, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1990–2008).
  • Elizabeth Catlett, 96, American-born Mexican artist.
  • Allie Clark, 88, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics).
  • Jim Delaney, 91, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) shot putter.
  • Sarah Dreher, 75, American novelist and playwright.
  • Frank Fucarino, 91, American basketball player (Toronto Huskies).
  • Ben Huan, 105, Chinese Buddhist master, honorary president of the Buddhist Association of China.
  • John Kuenster, 87, American sportswriter, editor of Baseball Digest.
  • Mauricio Lasansky, 97, Argentinian-born American printmaker.
  • Jimmy Little, 75, Australian singer.
  • Felice Ludovisi, 94, Italian painter.
  • Fatma Neslişah, 91, Turkish-born Ottoman and Egyptian royal, heart attack.
  • Alan Ruddock, 68, Irish martial artist and teacher.
  • M. Saroja, 79, Indian film actress.

    • 3

  • Amer Al Midani, 55, Lebanese businessman.
  • Lorne Benson, 81, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
  • Arduino Bertoldo, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foligno (1992–2008).
  • Michael Bzdel, 81, Canadian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Metropolitan of Winnipeg (1992–2006).
  • Richard Descoings, 53, French academic director (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris).
  • Nicholas King, 79, American actor, preserved the Watts Towers.
  • Efraím Basílio Krevey, 83, Brazilian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (1978–2006).
  • Mingote, 93, Spanish cartoonist, writer, and journalist.
  • Govind Narain, 95, Indian civil servant, Governor of Karnataka (1977–1983).
  • Airton Pavilhão, 77, Brazilian footballer.
  • Xenia Stad-de Jong, 90, Dutch Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) athlete.
  • Chief Jay Strongbow, 83, American professional wrestler (WWF).
  • José María Zárraga, 81, Spanish footballer and manager. (Spanish)

    • 4

  • Muhammad Afrizal, 30, Indonesian boxer, PABA featherweight champion (2008), injuries sustained from bout.
  • A. Dean Byrd, 64, American psychologist.
  • Anne Karin Elstad, 74, Norwegian author, stroke.
  • Josiah Henson, 90, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) wrestler, stroke and myocardial infarction.
  • Aminul Islam, 40, Bangladeshi trade union leader.
  • Nikolay Krasovsky, 87, Russian mathematician.
  • Claude Miller, 70, French director, producer, and screenwriter.
  • Helge Sverre Nesheim, 92, Norwegian broadcaster.
  • Richard Okada, 66, American linguist, Professor of Japanese at Princeton University.
  • Dubravko Pavličić, 44, Croatian footballer.
  • Roberto Rexach Benítez, 82, Puerto Rican politician, President of the Senate (1993–1996).

    • 5

  • Joe Avezzano, 68, American football player (Boston Patriots) and coach (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders), heart attack.
  • David Axon, 61, British astrophysicist.
  • Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, 91, Dominican military general, Provisional President (1965).
  • Angelo Castro, Jr., 67, Filipino journalist, The World Tonight anchor (1986–2009, 2011–2012), lung cancer.
  • Cynthia Dall, 41, American musician.
  • Attila Hazai, 44, Hungarian writer.
  • Jim Herr, 87, American businessman, founder of Herr's Snacks.
  • Jimmy Lawlor, 78, Irish footballer.
  • Jim Marshall, 88, English businessman, founder of Marshall Amplification.
  • Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners).
  • Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, Malawian politician, President (since 2004), heart attack.
  • Gil Noble, 80, American television reporter and host (Like It Is).
  • Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, German designer.
  • Siegbert Salomon Prawer, 87, German-born British academic and writer.
  • Bernard Rapoport, 94, American businessman and philanthropist.
  • A. G. L. Shaw, 96, Australian historian.
  • Stanislav Strnad, 81, Czech film director.
  • Sir Peter Tapsell, 82, New Zealand politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1993–1996).
  • Dick Wearmouth, 85, Australian football player.
  • Christer Zetterberg, 70, Swedish businessman.

    • 6

  • Larry Canning, 86, English footballer (Aston Villa) and broadcaster, vascular dementia.
  • Robin Denniston, 85, British book publisher.
  • Fang Lizhi, 76, Chinese political activist and astrophysicist.
  • Felipe Fernández García, 76, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ávila (1976–1991) and San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife (1991–2005).
  • Promode Gogoi, 82, Indian politician.
  • Roland Guilbault, 77, American admiral who commanded the USS Ticonderoga, the first Aegis cruiser.
  • Dermot Hannafin (Snr), 84, Irish football player.
  • Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, overdose of alcohol and Valium.
  • Thomas Sancton, Sr., 97, American novelist and journalist.
  • Michael Sands, 66, American show business publicist and alleged CIA operative, choked.
  • Arnold Saul, 87, American tennis player and coach.
  • Sheila Scotter, 91, Australian fashion editor (Vogue Australia).
  • Reed Whittemore, 92, American poet.

    • 7

  • Steven Kanumba, 28, Tanzanian actor and director.
  • Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven, 87, Scottish peer and soldier, Lord Lieutenant of Nairn (1969–1999).
  • Miss Read, 98, English writer.
  • Satsue Mito, 97, Japanese zoologist.
  • Ignatius Moses I Daoud, 81, Syrian Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Antioch (1998–2001), stroke complications.
  • David E. Pergrin, 94, American soldier, led the most decorated World War II engineering battalion.
  • Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, 54, Pakistani politician, cardiac arrest.
  • Tom Runnels, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins).
  • Harold Robert Steacy, 88, Canadian mineralogist.
  • Serafym (Verzun), 62, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zhytomyr (1992–1995), Archbishop of Rivne (1995–2000) and Kirovohrad (2002–2008).
  • Anders Thor, 76, Swedish scientist and educator.
  • Mike Wallace, 93, American news correspondent (60 Minutes).
  • Jamshid Zokirov, 63, Uzbek actor.

    • 8

  • Gordon Bagier, 87, British politician, MP for Sunderland South (1964–1987).
  • Bram Bart, 49, Dutch voice actor, pancreatic cancer. (Dutch)
  • John Egan, 59, Irish Gaelic footballer.
  • George Wilberforce Kakoma, 89, Ugandan musician, composer of the Ugandan national anthem.
  • Blair Kiel, 50, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), suspected heart attack.
  • Donal O'Brien, 72, Irish hurler.
  • Anatoly Ravikovich, 75, Russian film actor (The Pokrovsky Gate), cancer. (Russian)
  • Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, founder of Commodore and CEO of Atari.
  • Al Veigel, 95, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
  • Rikiya Yasuoka, 64, Japanese actor and singer, heart failure.
  • Janusz K. Zawodny, 90, Polish-born American historian, World War II resistance fighter.

    • 9

  • Takeshi Aono, 75, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, One Piece), post-operative multiple cerebral infarction.
  • Richard Beyer, 85, American sculptor.
  • Barry Cahill, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Grand Theft Auto, Sweet Bird of Youth).
  • John Golding, 82, British artist, art scholar and curator.
  • José Guardiola, 81, Spanish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1963).
  • Ismail Haron, 66, Singaporean singer.
  • Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1992) diver, hypotension.
  • Wiebo Ludwig, 70, Canadian environmental activist and convicted bomber, esophageal cancer.
  • Ivan Nagel, 80, German theater director.
  • Simo Nikolić, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor. (Croatian)
  • Meral Okay, 53, Turkish actress and screenwriter (Muhteşem Yüzyıl), cancer.
  • Boris Parygin, 81, Russian philosopher and sociologist. (Russian)
  • Don Reed, 92, American football coach (Long Beach State 49ers), natural causes.
  • Robert R. Sokal, 86, Austrian-born American biostatistician and entomologist.
  • Malcolm Thomas, 82, Welsh rugby union player.

    • 10

  • Svein Aasmundstad, 77, Norwegian civil servant.
  • John Anderson, 69, Northern Irish bioengineer.
  • Luis Aponte Martínez, 89, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate and first cardinal, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (1964–1999).
  • Erdoğan Arıca, 57, Turkish football coach, lung cancer.
  • Raymond Aubrac, 97, French WWII resistance fighter.
  • Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, 79, Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Camiri (1993–2009).
  • Barbara Buchholz, 52, German musician and composer, cancer.
  • Virginia Spencer Carr, 82, American biographer.
  • Maria-Pia Casilio, 76, Italian film actress. (Italian)
  • Lili Chookasian, 90, American opera singer.
  • Kurt Crain, 47, American football player (Houston Oilers, Green Bay Packers).
  • Dorothy Dermody, 102, Irish Olympic (1948) fencer.
  • Zvi Dinstein, 86, Israeli politician, MK (1965–1974), pulmonary embolism.
  • Carl Gatto, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (since 2003), prostate cancer.
  • Tichaona Mudzingwa, 69, Zimbabwean politician.
  • Odd Rikard Olsen, 64, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician.
  • Akin Omoboriowo, 81, Nigerian lawyer and politician.
  • Andy Replogle, 58, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers).
  • Afewerk Tekle, 80, Ethiopian artist, complications of stomach ulcer.
  • Grant Tilly, 74, New Zealand actor (30 Days of Night).
  • Carlos Truan, 76, American politician.
  • N. Varadarajan, 88, Indian politician.
  • John Weaver, 92, American sculptor.

    • 11

  • Julio Alemán, 79, Mexican actor, cancer.
  • Ahmed Ben Bella, 93, Algerian politician, Prime Minister (1962–1963); President (1963–1965).
  • Misbach Yusa Biran, 78, Indonesian film director.
  • Roger Caron, 73, Canadian author, prison escape artist, and bank robber, infection.
  • Eugene V. Clark, 86, American Roman Catholic priest.
  • Tippy Dye, 97, American college athlete, coach, and athletic director.
  • Gustaf Jansson, 90, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) athlete. (Swedish)
  • Bob Lewis, 86, American college basketball player (University of Utah).
  • Gianni Marchetti, 78, Italian composer and songwriter.
  • Moses Majekodunmi, 95, Nigerian politician, Minister of Health (1960–66).
  • Hal McKusick, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist, natural causes.
  • Yolanda Mérida, 82, Mexican actress.
  • Rainer Penkert, 90, German actor.
  • Agustin Roman, 83, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1979–2003), heart attack.

    • 12

  • Vladimir Astapovsky, 65, Soviet Olympic bronze medal-winning (1976) footballer.
  • Kellon Baptiste, 38, Grenadian footballer, cancer.
  • Mohit Chattopadhyay, 77, Indian playwright, dramatist, and poet, cancer.
  • Linda Cook, 63, American actress.
  • Elly Deliou, 76, Greek musician (musical saw).
  • Elizabeth Ferris, 71, British Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) diver.
  • David Alan Gore, 58, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
  • Rodgers Grant, 76, American jazz pianist, cancer.
  • Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen, 74, Faroese poet and writer, Faroese Literature Prize recipient. (Faroese)
  • Robert Kennedy, 73, Canadian publisher, complications from skin cancer.
  • Andrew Love, 70, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
  • Masakre, 57, Mexican professional wrestler, cancer.
  • Bruce Morrison, 88, Australian football player.
  • Manfred Orzessek, 78, German footballer. (German)
  • Nico Tirone, 67, Italian singer. (Italian)
  • Amy Tryon, 42, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (2004) equestrian, accidental drug overdose.

    • 13

  • Irving K. Barber, 89, Canadian forester and philanthropist.
  • John Blane, 82, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Rwanda (1982–1985); Chad (1985–1988).
  • William B. Buffum, 90, American diplomat, US Ambassador to Lebanon (1970–1974), natural causes.
  • Cecil Chaudhry, 70, Pakistani fighter pilot, school principal, and activist, lung cancer.
  • William Alden Edson, 99, American engineer.
  • Avraham Goldberg, 99, American-born Israeli Talmud scholar.
  • Shūichi Higurashi, 75, Japanese manga illustrator, painted cover for Big Comic (1970–2011), pneumonia.
  • Ruth Davis Kohrt, 90, American librarian and novelist.
  • Marilyn Lovell Matz, 81, American actress (Ghosts of Mississippi), therapist and activist.
  • Peter Mullins, 86, Australian Olympic decathlete (1948), basketball player, and coach.
  • Lewis Nordan, 72, American writer, pneumonia.
  • Mario Rizzi, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio (since 1991), Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria (1991–1996).
  • David S. Smith, 94, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sweden (1976–1977).
  • Robert Wigmore, 62, Cook Islands politician.

    • 14

  • Émile Bouchard, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
  • Tom Farrell, 87, Canadian politician.
  • William Finley, 69, American actor (Phantom of the Paradise), complications from surgery.
  • C. Miller Fisher, 98, Canadian neurologist.
  • Jonathan Frid, 87, Canadian actor (Dark Shadows), natural causes.
  • Bela Gold, 97, Hungarian-born American businessman and professor.
  • Ma Jaya, 71, American spiritual teacher, pancreatic cancer.
  • Lee Kyung-Hwan, 24, South Korean footballer (Suwon Bluewings), suicide by jumping.
  • Eddie May, 68, English football player and manager.
  • Piermario Morosini, 25, Italian footballer (Livorno), cardiac arrest.
  • Martin Poll, 89, American film producer (The Lion in Winter), natural causes.
  • Edward Purrington, 82, American opera director.
  • Paulo César Saraceni, 78, Brazilian film director.
  • Vincent F. Seyfried, 93, American historian.
  • Per G. Stavnum, 70, Norwegian diplomat, ambassador to Lithuania (1991–1996); Vietnam (2000–2005). (Norwegian)
  • Synchronised, 9, Irish racehorse, euthanised after race fall.
  • Viro the Virus, 33, American hip hop artist.
  • Mikhail Voronin, 73, Ukrainian fashion designer.
  • Cathie Wright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1992–2000).

    • 15

  • Paul Bogart, 92, American Emmy Award-winning television director (All in the Family), natural causes.
  • Hans Johansson, 85, Swedish Olympic equestrian. (Swedish)
  • Peter McKenzie, 59, New Zealand conservationist, cancer.
  • Yasushi Mieno, 88, Japanese banker, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1989–1994), cardiac arrest.
  • Jenny Olsson, 32, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier, cancer.
  • Bob Perani, 69, Italian-born American ice hockey player (Flint Generals).
  • Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, 73, Russian actor, complications from diabetes and stroke.
  • Murray Rose, 73, Australian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956, 1960) swimmer, leukaemia.
  • Samir Said, 48, Kuwaiti footballer, traffic collision.
  • Rich Saul, 64, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), leukemia.
  • Dwayne Schintzius, 43, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets), respiratory failure.
  • James Shaner, 75, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1995–2006).
  • Joan Tozzer, 90, American figure skater.
  • Bob Wright, 86, American college basketball coach (Morehead State University).
  • Tadashi Yamamoto, 76, Japanese businessman, founder of the Japan Center for International Exchange, gall bladder cancer.

    • 16

  • Sári Barabás, 98, Hungarian-born German opera singer, stroke.
  • Marian Biskup, 89, Polish historian.
  • Ernest Callenbach, 83, American writer and environmentalist.
  • Teddy Charles, 84, American jazz musician and composer.
  • Jack Cohen, 93, American rabbi.
  • Ray Davey, 97, Northern Irish Presbyterian minister, founder of the Corrymeela Community.
  • Jean Fréchaut, 97, French cyclist.
  • Alan Hacker, 73, British clarinetist.
  • George Kunda, 56, Zambian politician, Vice President (2008–2011), anaemia.
  • A.F. Millidge, 98, British arachnologist.
  • Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, 98, Danish shipping magnate.
  • Antoine Hamid Mourany, 82, Lebanese-born Syrian Maronite hierarch, Metropolitan of Damascus (1989–1999).
  • Arthur Nadel, 80, American fund manager and convicted embezzler.
  • Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên, 53, South Vietnamese-born Italian lawyer, daughter of Madame Nhu, traffic collision.
  • Carlo Petrini, 64, Italian footballer.
  • Graham Simpson, 68, British musician (Roxy Music).
  • Randy Starkman, 51, Canadian sports journalist, pneumonia.
  • Jack Streidl, 93, American football coach.

    • 17

  • Barry Askew, 75, British newspaper editor (News of the World).
  • Leila Berg, 94, British children's author.
  • J. Quinn Brisben, 77, American civil rights activist and Socialist candidate for U.S. President in 1992.
  • Michael Green, New Zealand diplomat, cancer. (death announced on this date)
  • Stan Johnson, 75, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics).
  • Almasbei Kchach, 53, Abkhazian politician, suicide.
  • Sukenobu Kudō, 84, Japanese speed skater (1952 Winter Olympics), renal failure. (Japanese)
  • Irving Millman, 88, American virologist and microbiologist.
  • Dimitris Mitropanos, 64, Greek singer, pulmonary edema.
  • Nityananda Mohapatra, 99, Indian politician, poet, and journalist, natural causes.
  • Jonathan V. Plaut, 69, American rabbi.
  • Ben H. Procter, 85, American author and football player (Los Angeles Rams), Parkinson's disease.
  • Stanley Rogers Resor, 94, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army (1965–1971).
  • Jane Schaberg, 74, American biblical scholar.
  • Dom Valentino, 83, American sports broadcaster.
  • Louis Vorster, 45, South African-born Namibian cricketer, shot.

    • 18

  • Arthur Bottom, 82, English footballer (York City).
  • José Cerviño Cerviño, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tui-Vigo (1976–1996).
  • Dick Clark, 82, American television host and producer (American Bandstand, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Pyramid), heart attack.
  • Hillman Curtis, 51, American graphic designer and filmmaker, colon cancer.
  • Cora Hansen, 113, American-born Canadian supercentenarian.
  • René Lépine, 82, Canadian real estate developer, prostate cancer.
  • Kristian Lund, 80, Norwegian military officer, engineer and politician.
  • John O'Neil, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
  • Robert O. Ragland, 80, American film score composer.
  • Sterling Ridge, 75, American politician, Mayor of Glendale, Arizona (1976–1980), three-term member of the Arizona House of Representatives.
  • Col Saddington, 74, Australian football player.
  • Naum Shopov, 78, Bulgarian actor.
  • Åge Storhaug, 74, Norwegian Olympic (1960, 1964) gymnast, cancer.
  • Fritz Theilen, 84, German resistance member.
  • K. D. Wentworth, 61, American science fiction author, cancer and pneumonia.

    • 19

  • Mohammed Mustafa Badawi, 86, Egyptian academic.
  • Leopold David de Rothschild, 84, British financier and philanthropist.
  • Ray Easterling, 62, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide by gunshot.
  • Greg Ham, 58, Australian musician (Men at Work). (body found on this date)
  • Levon Helm, 71, American musician (The Band) and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter), throat cancer.
  • Mansur Kamaletdinov, 86, Russian ballet dancer and teacher.
  • Ken Lowrie, 85, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1968–1986).
  • Jacques Martin, 52, Canadian Paralympian, gold medalist (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996), heart attack.
  • Enrico Pedrini, 72, Italian art theorist. (Italian)
  • Murtaza Razvi, 48, Pakistani journalist, strangled.
  • Chitturi Satyanarayana, 99, Indian surgeon.
  • Meenakshi Thapar, 26, Indian actress (404), strangled.
  • Mabel Van Camp, 91, Canadian judge, first woman on the Supreme Court of Ontario.
  • Valeri Vasiliev, 62, Russian Olympic gold (1972, 1976) and silver (1980) medal-winning ice hockey player.
  • Zozo Zarpa, 73, Greek actress, heart failure.

    • 20

  • Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, 70, Mexican army general, shot.
  • Ayten Alpman, 82, Turkish singer, respiratory failure.
  • Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, 89, British politician and disability campaigner, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South (1966–1992).
  • Alfie Biggs, 76, English footballer.
  • Matt Branam, 57, American academic, President of Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (since 2009).
  • Peter Carsten, 83, German actor.
  • George Cowan, 92, American physical chemist and member of Manhattan Project, injuries from a fall.
  • Clément Haeyen, 84, Belgian Olympic (1960) weightlifter. (Dutch)
  • Joe Muranyi, 84, American jazz musician.
  • Don Wedge, 82, American football referee (1972–1995).
  • Bert Weedon, 91, English guitarist and composer.

    • 21

  • Doris Betts, 79, American author, lung cancer.
  • Ramón Búa Otero, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarazona (1982–1989) and Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño (1989–2003).
  • Charles Colson, 80, American White House Counsel convicted in Watergate scandal, evangelist, founder of Prison Fellowship, brain hemorrhage.
  • Albert Falco, 84, French sea captain and scuba diver.
  • Wim Franken, 90, Dutch composer and pianist.
  • Harry Heslet, 92, American baseball player.
  • Brian Heward, 76, English footballer.
  • Charles Higham, 81, English-born American biographer, heart attack.
  • Heinz Jentzsch, 92, German racehorse trainer.
  • Peter Milano, 82, American businessman.
  • Frank Odoi, 64, Kenyan cartoonist, road accident.
  • Jerry Toppazzini, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings).

    • 22

  • John Amabile, 73, American football scout (New York Giants), coach and player (Boston College).
  • Gunnar Göransson, 78, Swedish Olympic cyclist. (Swedish)
  • Bill Granger, 70, American author and columnist.
  • Matti Kuosku, 71, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier. (Swedish)
  • Buzz Potamkin, 66, American television producer.
  • George Rathmann, 84, American businessman, first chief executive of Amgen, kidney failure.
  • Aristarkh (Stankevich), 70, Belarusian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Gomel and Zhlobin (since 1990). (Russian)

    • 23

  • Navodaya Appachan, 81, Indian film producer, cancer.
  • Lillemor Arvidsson, 68, Swedish trade union leader and politician, Governor of Gotland (1998–2004). (Swedish)
  • Eunice Bommelyn, 85, American Tolowa cultural advocate, Tolowa language proponent, and historian.
  • Hacho Boyadzhiev, 80, Bulgarian television and film director.
  • Michael Brinton, 70, British businessman, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire (since 2001), cancer.
  • Billy Bryans, 64, Canadian musician and producer (Parachute Club), lung cancer.
  • Roland Dale, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins).
  • Michael DeBose, 58, American politician, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2002–2010), complications of Parkinson's disease.
  • Chris Ethridge, 65, American country rock bassist (International Submarine Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers).
  • Veriano Luchetti, 73, Italian opera singer. (Italian)
  • Tommy Marth, 33, American musician (The Killers), suicide.
  • Raymond Thorsteinsson, 91, Canadian geologist.
  • LeRoy T. Walker, 93, American track coach, Chairman of the US Olympic Committee (1992–1996).
  • Flo Whyard, 95, Canadian politician, Mayor of Whitehorse (1981–1983), Yukon territorial minister (1975–1978), editor of the Whitehorse Star.

    • 24

  • Fred Bradley, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
  • William A. Campbell, 95, American USAF colonel, member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
  • Nell Ginjaar-Maas, 80, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Education and Science (1982–1989). (Dutch)
  • John McGrath, 92, American army soldier and World War II Easy Company veteran.
  • Erast Parmasto, 83, Estonian mycologist.
  • Miguel Portas, 53, Portuguese politician, Member of the European Parliament for Portugal (since 2004), lung cancer. (Portuguese)
  • Eusebio Razo, Jr., 46, Mexican-born American jockey, explosion.
  • Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, 67, British peer, councillor for Brompton ward, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (since 1998).
  • Yugo Sako, 84, Japanese movie director, aspiration pneumonia. (Japanese)
  • Amos Vogel, 91, Austrian-born American film scholar, founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16.
  • George Vujnovich, 96, American OSS agent and leader of Operation Halyard, natural causes.
  • Ambrose Weekes, 93, British Anglican bishop.

    • 25

  • Gerry Bahen, 83, Australian football player and administrator.
  • Rolando Ramos Dizon, 67, Filipino educator, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (2003–2004).
  • Sir Brandon Gough, 74, British businessman, Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (since 2003).
  • Charles G. Hall, 81, American photojournalist.
  • Denny Jones, 101, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1973–1999).
  • Moscelyne Larkin, 87, American ballerina.
  • Louis le Brocquy, 95, Irish painter.
  • Stephen Maxwell, 69, Scottish politician.
  • Hysni Milloshi, 66, Albanian politician.
  • Ian Oswald, 82, Scottish sleep researcher.
  • Paul L. Smith, 75, American actor (Popeye, Dune, Maverick).
  • Jan Bernard Szlaga, 71, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pelplin (since 1992), duodenal ulcer hemorrhage.
  • Brij Bhushan Tiwari, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.

    • 26

  • Pete Fornatale, 66, American radio disc jockey (WNEW-FM, WFUV), brain aneurysm.
  • Floyd D. Hall, 96, American pilot, chairman and chief executive of Eastern Air Lines.
  • Ardian Klosi, 55, Albanian political analyst, publicist, and writer, suicide.
  • Ted Newall, 76, Canadian businessman.
  • José Martins Ribeiro Nunes, 85, Brazilian naval pilot.
  • Terence Spinks, 74, British Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) boxer.
  • Margie Stewart, 92, American model and actress.
  • Chut Wutty, 40, Cambodian environmental activist, shot.

    • 27

  • Daniel E. Boatwright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1980–1996).
  • Anatoly Lebed, 48, Russian army officer, Hero of the Russian Federation.
  • Takayoshi Nagamine, 66, Japanese karate master and trainer.
  • František Procházka, 50, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning (1992) ice hockey player.
  • Ari Magder, 28, Canadian child actor (Shining Time Station).
  • Harold Pupkewitz, 96, Lithuanian-born Namibian businessman, heart attack.
  • René Rouffeteau, 86, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) cyclist. (French)
  • Bill Skowron, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox), heart failure.
  • Allen Tough, 76, Canadian scientist, complications of multiple system atrophy.
  • Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine, 96, Lebanese Druze religious leader.
  • David Weiss, 65, Swiss artist (Peter Fischli & David Weiss).

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  • Sir Fred Allen, 92, New Zealand rugby player, captain, and coach, leukemia.
  • John Birch, 82, British musician.
  • Matilde Camus, 92, Spanish poet. (Spanish)
  • Joaquín Dualde, 79, Spanish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) field hockey player. (Spanish)
  • Al Ecuyer, 74, American-born Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
  • Stein Johnson, 90, Norwegian Olympic (1948, 1952) discus thrower.
  • Jackie Kelso, 90, American jazz musician.
  • Walter Mathews, 85, American actor (General Hospital).
  • Patricia Medina, 92, British actress, natural causes.
  • Dudley Peake, 77, Welsh footballer.
  • Milan N. Popović, 87, Serbian psychiatrist and author.
  • Sir John Quinton, 82, British banker (Barclays).
  • Aberdeen Shikoyi, 27, Kenyan rugby player, spinal cord injury sustained in match play.
  • Tom Spence, 50, Scottish footballer, suspected heart failure.
  • Geoffrey Tyler, 91, British educationalist.
  • Ervin Zádor, 76, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist (1956).

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  • Amarillo Slim, 83, American professional gambler, winner of the 1972 World Series of Poker main event, colon cancer.
  • Éric Charden, 69, French singer, lymphoma.
  • Wiesław Chrzanowski, 88, Polish politician and professor, Marshal of the Sejm (1991–1993).
  • Dynaformer, 27, American racehorse and sire, euthanized.
  • Shukri Ghanem, 69, Libyan politician, Prime Minister (2003–2006) and Minister of Oil (2006–2011).
  • Joel Goldsmith, 54, American film and television composer (Stargate), son of Jerry Goldsmith.
  • Daisy Junor, 92, Canadian baseball player (AAGPBL).
  • Joram Lindenstrauss, 75, Israeli mathematician.
  • Jim McCrary, 72, American photographer.
  • Roland Moreno, 66, French inventor, creator of the smart card.
  • Kenny Roberts, 84, American country music singer and yodeler.
  • Jean Tschabold, 86, Swiss Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.
  • Idar Ulstein, 78, Norwegian businessman, cancer.

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  • Cliff Ashby, 92, British poet and novelist.
  • Finn Benestad, 82, Norwegian musicologist.
  • Ernst Bolldén, 45, Swedish wheelchair table tennis player and Paralympian gold (1996) and bronze (1996, 2000) medalist, bladder cancer.
  • Tomás Borge, 81, Nicaraguan politician and poet, founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, pneumonia.
  • Alexander Dale Oen, 26, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (2008) swimmer, cardiac arrest.
  • Barry Freiman, 48, American writer.
  • Giannis Gravanis, 54, Greek footballer (Panionios F.C.).
  • Andrew Levane, 92, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Milwaukee Hawks) and coach (New York Knicks, St. Louis Bombers).
  • William Burley Lockwood, 95, British linguist.
  • George Murdock, 81, American actor (Barney Miller, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files), cancer.
  • Billy Neighbors, 72, American football player (Boston Patriots, Miami Dolphins), heart attack.
  • Benzion Netanyahu, 102, Israeli historian, academic, and Revisionist Zionist activist, father of Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • Arturo Andrés Roig, 89, Argentine philosopher.
  • Achala Sachdev, 91, Indian actress.
  • Sicelo Shiceka, 45, South African politician, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (since 2009).

    • References

    Deaths in April 2012 Wikipedia
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